Strange Stories: Beyond the Ordinary

Anil Menon’s most recent work is the novel The Coincidence Plot. It was preceded by a collection of his speculative short fiction, The Inconceivable Idea Of The Sun: Stories. He is currently the chief editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine.

Lavanya Lakshminarayan is the author of The Ten Percent Thief, which was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA and Locus Awards, and featured in Reactor’s Best Books of 2021. She also authored the critically lauded Interstellar MegaChef, whose sequel Intergalactic Feast is out in 2026. She is the first science fiction writer to win the Times of India AutHer Award and the Valley of Words Award. She is occasionally a game designer, and has built worlds for Zynga Inc.’s FarmVille franchise, Mafia Wars, and other games.

Arundhati is a writer, cultural practitioner, social activist, and traveller, with three decades of experience in the arts and culture. She served as the Executive Director of India Foundation for the Arts (2013-23), and is on advisory panels and boards of Museum of Art and Photography, Shomokaleen Protibidhan, the Solidarity Foundation, and Maraa. She writes for various publications such as Scroll, The Wire, The Hindu, and The Deccan Herald. Her collection of poetry in Bangla Oshomoye phire esho nodi hoye (2023) was published by Lastrada Prakashan. Her book All Our Loves: Journeys with Polyamory in India (2025), published by Aleph Book Company, won the Non Fiction Book of the Year Award at the Rainbow Literature Festival 2025 and the Kala Shreshtha Award for Debut Author English 2026. She has also co-edited a collection of essays in Bangla of daughters writing about their mothers titled Meyeder Mayera (2026) published by Sonta Prokashona. She writes a monthly column on relationships, “Ties and Knots,” for The Deccan Herald.